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Monday, February 11, 2008

I was reading the bike snob earlier and he referred to "junk miles" as something "roadies" call those miles they do when they are not training. I guess that would mean stuff like,.. riding to work, down to the pub, to the park with your kids, etc,... I'll admit that I used to throw those out myself. I would never count riding to class, or down to the store in my training.

But now, with a family, kids, a job, and not much time, I'll take any mile I can get and put them in my log (blog) as time well spent on the bike. As I read the snob's blog, I recalled a guy I ran cross-country with back at college. He was our best runner, and he would even wear a pedometer around with him. He counted miles walked to class, between classes, to dinner, etc,... He counted everything towards his training.

I'm not sure I'd go that far, but I'm going to count the miles I did today to work, back home, and over to the auto parts store as part of my training. Not to mention, I froze my ass off. The misery's gotta be worth something right?

Today's Training: back and forth to work, and the auto-zone for new brake shoes for my wife's car. 1 hr: 5 minutes on the trainer in the kitchen.

6 comments:

I have always thought of junk miles as those miles that do you no good for your training. Mostly riding really hard when you are supposed to be taking it easy. But riding to work is a great way to train as long as you do not stop every 30 seconds. It takes me an hour and a half of good mix of training and commuting.